DISCOURSES OF SLAVERY AND ABOLITION:
WRITING IN BRITAIN AND ITS COLONIES, 1660-1838
A Two-Day International Conference at the Institute of English Studies,
University of London, United Kingdom.
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 April 2001
Proposals are invited for short papers.
SUBJECT AREA:
This conference aims to bring together scholars working on the literature of
slavery and abolition in the long eighteenth century. For almost two
centuries, between the formation of the Royal Adventurers to Guinea in 1660
and the complete emancipation of slaves in British colonies in 1838, the
effects of slavery and the slave trade were evident at every level of
British society. Accordingly, there existed by 1838 a considerable body of
literature concerned with slavery, abolition and emancipation, a body which
included political tracts and pamphlets, newspaper and periodical reports,
biography and autobiography, and novels, poems and plays. This literature
is often viewed merely as historical source material, an approach which
often precludes a more subtle discussion. The conference will raise
questions about its form, genre, rhetorical strategy, its place in the wider
context of literature in the long eighteenth century as well as its
historical, political, and theoretical context.
POSSIBLE THEMES FOR PAPERS:
* Fiction, drama, and poetry of slavery and abolition
* Journals, letters and diaries
* Individual authors
* Individual abolitionists
* Black self-representations
* Rhetoric of abolition
* Theories of race and empire
* Slavery and Augustan, sentimental, or Romantic literature
* Race and gender
* Newspapers and periodicals.
* Pro-slavery writing
* Travel writing
* Images of Africa and Africans
* Writing the Caribbean
* Colonial encounters
* Women and the abolition movement
* Slavery beyond the Atlantic
PROPOSALS:
Proposals should be approximately 300-400 words for 20 minute papers. They
should be submitted to the conference organisers by 31 October 2000. E-mail
proposals are preferred, but typewritten copy is also acceptable. Informal
enquiries can also be made to the organisers.
SUBMISSIONS TO:
or
Brycchan Carey
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition Conference
School of English and Drama
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
FURTHER INFORMATION:
The conference webpage will be regularly updated:
http://sites.netscape.net/brycchan/dsa.htm
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Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, Sara Salih
28 June 2000
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